Community Lounge, Introductions and General Discussion Discussion, What did you do to your car today? in General Discussion; Originally Posted by thebigjimsho
Jimmeh is correct. I was being intentionally obtuse. Since Sal doesn't let us list cars we ...

Re: What did you do to your car today?

Originally Posted by thebigjimsho

Jimmeh is correct. I was being intentionally obtuse. Since Sal doesn't let us list cars we drive, only Cadillacs, I don't list my Town Car.

I sold my '07 TC Executive L on Tuesday with 199,500 miles and picked up my '11 on Tuesday. It took 2 days because Ford was wasted much of Tuesday and part of Wednesday checking the credit for Home James Inc., not Home James! Inc. even though they were given my address, amongst other things...

But I sold my TC in West Orange, NJ and the buyer drove me 20 miles north to Wayne, NJ which is one of the rare Lincoln fleet dealers who have TCs in stock. And my friend lives in Staten Island so I had a place to stay for a couple days.

Home James! Inc. That is brilliant! How is it I never knew this? That should be your user title.
And there are all kinds of folks listing their non-Cadillacs under the cadillacs they drive. I chose not to.

Re: What did you do to your car today?

Like me!

Anywho...

Today marks one year of wagon ownership for me. This is awesome. So to celebrate, I did a few things:

New brake calipers and pads. They were bad. Really bad, and one of the calipers got stuck, so I replaced them both. Total cost? Under $50.
New hood struts. Now the hood stays up and won't eat me! Yay! Total cost? $0. These were a gift from dad.
Fixed an exhaust leak that my dad found. Two of the bolts down by the header collector were gone, and one was broken. Took the broken bolt in, matched some up, replaced. Total cost? $10.

Other miscellaneous expenses included two cans of brake clean (only needed one), a bottle of brake fluid, and a large container of Gojo soap. Misc. cost? $10.

So for $80 I can now stop, work on my car without getting eaten, and now, unfortunately, it's much MUCH quieter. Needs duals next Christmas break FOR SURE. I'll take a video of the newer quiet exhaust today.

Re: What did you do to your car today?

Originally Posted by Stingroo

Like me!

Anywho...

Today marks one year of wagon ownership for me. This is awesome. So to celebrate, I did a few things:

New brake calipers and pads. They were bad. Really bad, and one of the calipers got stuck, so I replaced them both. Total cost? Under $50.
New hood struts. Now the hood stays up and won't eat me! Yay! Total cost? $0. These were a gift from dad.
Fixed an exhaust leak that my dad found. Two of the bolts down by the header collector were gone, and one was broken. Took the broken bolt in, matched some up, replaced. Total cost? $10.

Other miscellaneous expenses included two cans of brake clean (only needed one), a bottle of brake fluid, and a large container of Gojo soap. Misc. cost? $10.

So for $80 I can now stop, work on my car without getting eaten, and now, unfortunately, it's much MUCH quieter. Needs duals next Christmas break FOR SURE. I'll take a video of the newer quiet exhaust today.

sounds like alot of work, especially for someone who does not like wagons

Re: What did you do to your car today?

.............to the car, nothing. Hauled down my spare intake manifold and set of injectors. Scoped out the injector spray holes (4) in a slight rectangular pattern - 2 holes (jets ?) for each side of the two-valve port. Considered playing with a Dremel tool and fairing in the lower section of the injector bosses to improve airflow through the spray pattern into the siamesed ports........see the flat area just on the port side of the manifold injector boss ? A little fairing and polishing...........

Re: What did you do to your car today?

woke up went to check see if seville was still in the drive yes i call her seville i still have not named her yet need to pick a good one out and 2 years havent found it yet lol
drove her to the body shop where someone finally got the picture cheaper to fix the part with at least a used part for 200 bucks then to spend 1000s in court defending themselves
so now i just wait for the call to come get her